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"I distrust ALL modern USA political parties/movements, and evaluate individual politicians instead."

Then you really don't understand your political interest as a non rich person. Big business interests are allayed against the common man.

Crisis of democracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. See the manufacturing consent videos when you get the time.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Manufacturing consent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM

https://vimeo.com/39566117

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

" I'd love to hear companies speak of employees like something other than a lump of coal to be tossed into the boiler."

Not going to happen until you people start getting a clue that your masters don't even practice what they preach, you guys need to stop licking the balls of capitalist ideology so hard and ask tough questions about whether rule of law can even exist in a high tech society. How is one to hold a big company accountable when you are hundreds of miles away from it? I have serious doubts most of you guys are introspective and self critical enough to see through your leaders bullshit.

You want to be treated better you guys need to start scaring the shit out of the business community and let them know you'll stand up for your right to exist too instead of being so slave like to the business community.

Crisis of democracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. See the manufacturing consent videos when you get the time.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Wikileaks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be

Manufacturing consent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM

https://vimeo.com/39566117

  Other important info

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/10/michael-hudson-on-parasitic-financial-capitalism.html

Michael Hudson

The real news

The Citibank memo

Citigroup memo

http://www.rdwolff.com/

Richard wolf on capitalism

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

If you do it once they'll use that trick to get what they want every time.

They've been doing that since forever you and americans don't seem very informed on this issue. You guys are up to your ass in free market fairy tales down there.

Elites respond to Crisis of democracy - aka double down and propaganda and misinformation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI

Testing theories of representative government

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

The Citibank memo

Citigroup memo

Manufacturing consent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM

https://vimeo.com/39566117

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Yes but that was because drinking stored water was often hazardous. So the brewed lots and lots of small beer. Between the presence of the good yeast and the small amount of alcohol they did produce it drove a lot of the nastier bugs off.

So everyone especially children were given beer when the water was less than fresh.

Check out the documentary How Beer Saved the World if you haven't seen it already.

Is there any actual evidence that monitoring the traditional finance industry works?

It's all smoke and mirrors for those in the know. Capitalism has never been "regulated" it's always worked in the interests of power.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Wikileaks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be

Manufacturing consent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM

https://vimeo.com/39566117

  Other important info

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/10/michael-hudson-on-parasitic-financial-capitalism.html

Michael Hudson

The real news

The Citibank memo

Citigroup memo

http://www.rdwolff.com/

Richard wolf on capitalism

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.

Why do so many people (other than the 1% expecting their tax cuts) continually vote against their own best interests?

Because that's the way the elites have set it up, education is ignorance and science on human reasoning shows human reasoning is much poorer than thought. These links will take a while to digest.

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

Education as ignorance

Education as ignorance

Manufacturing consent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM

https://vimeo.com/39566117

Rd wolf on economics

http://www.rdwolff.com/

"Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role."

Crisis of democracy

Crisis of democracy - PDF

http://www.amazon.com/Crisis-D... ">Crisis of democracy - BOOK

Education as ignorance

Education as ignorance

Overthrowing other peoples governments

Overthrowing other peoples governments, the master list

Wikileaks on TTIP/TPP/ETC

Wikileaks

Energy subsidies

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/NEW070215A.htm

Interference in other states when the rich/corporations dont get their way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mxp_wgFWQo&feature=youtu.be&list=PLKR2GeygdHomOZeVKx3P0fqH58T3VghOj&t=724

Education as ignorance

Manufacturing consent (book)

http://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/0375714499/

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

http://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/0375714499/

Testing theories of representative government

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf

Democracy Inc

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed- Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

From war is a racket:

"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]

"War is a racket. ...It is

the corruption that creates and sustains that shit.

If you and the rest of america weren't so uneducated and ignorant you could all choose a correct political ideology, aka it's not right wing. The more right wing your country, the more you tell the world you don't understand you're being fucked by private power.

Crisis of democracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. See the manufacturing consent videos when you get the time.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Wikileaks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be

Manufacturing consent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM

https://vimeo.com/39566117

  Other important info

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/10/michael-hudson-on-parasitic-financial-capitalism.html

Michael Hudson

The real news

The Citibank memo

Citigroup memo

http://www.rdwolff.com/

Richard wolf on capitalism

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

  This is a project of american empire, aka the rich (big business) vs the rest of mankind.

The grand chessboard

The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives

Grand chessboard user review

Reddit and intelligence agencies

  Wikileaks -- Reddit and intelligence agencies

The AC comment for "Resonance: Beings Of Frequency"

https://vimeo.com/147674727

OK, here's the proof of the flood. Did this "clovis" people have the technology to dredge canals and build the roads and cities now underwater off the coast of the Americas? Those ruins were last above sea level well before the end of the last ice age, and yet they don't fit the bogus narratives TFA mentions.

Did you know there is actually no experiment to back the claim of sediment petrification rate? The rate is cited by several papers which cite each other, but there is no experimental evidence for the given rate. We could have stuck a ruler in the mud in the sea floor and waited a few decades then dug it up to see how much sediment turned to rock, but we haven't. That unevidenced sediment dating method is used to give the large scale dating of rock which the inaccurate radio carbon dating is then used to narrow down dates. Carbon 14 is created in the upper atmosphere and amounts found depend on the level of atmospheric carbon and solar activity cycle, both of which fluctuate significantly. You can have an older sample with more C14 than a younger sample because of the fluctuation. If you scientism jerks cared to research shit you'd understand your argument against creationism is a house built on sand. The "scientific" dating methods preached as facts that prove an old earth are based on assumptions and pseudo-scientific bullshit, and ignores ample contrary evidence that easily disproves their timeline.

We could do real science to determine the truth, but academia is under no pressure to do so because of zealots like you who regurgitate whatever BS you read in pop culture propaganda. Here's a hint: You keep slaves ignorant. If you need slaves that can read to do your labor then fill their heads with nonsense. Knowledge is Power. Your rulers don't give you peasants power.

Not a creationist, but they have more accurate history than the propaganda preached from academia. You're espousing the dogmatic belief of an anti-scientific cult known as Scaligarian Chronology, and didn't even know it. Even Issac Newton called BS on this shit.

Yes, but all of this is bogus because oceanic survey demonstrates that North America was colonized by a technologically advanced race. Enough tech to build straight roads thousands of miles long, and square ports dredged into the coast line (now several feet below sea level), go look at an aerial view of Louisiana and Florida's coast. There are underwater pyramids in the Gulf of Mexico and roads made of megalithic blocks the size of Stone Henge's off the coast of Bermuda.

So, any remains found are simply recolonizing after the cataclysmic flood, which there is ample geographical evidence to support. The ash layer linked to the disaster indicates humanity was likely reset by an impact on the then North American ice sheet. or by a sustained solar flare of some sort.

Rome traded with this pre-cataclysmic sea faring American civilization, as evidenced by the pre-columbian Roman Bust found beneath a temple's three stone floors in Mexico. Maybe the locals in Brazil didn't build those aqueducts after all?

Ancient History is bogus on purpose, they all uphold the unscientific Scalagarian Chronology - religious zealots rewrote history to match Christian theology in the "Reformation era"; Which was then enforced via the Spanish Inquisition, burning books and scholars who disagreed as witches.

TL;DR: So much evidence is ignored by academic anthropologists to continue upholding this bogus version of history that debating whatever findings they show the public is a worthless endeavor.

See grid is late to the game. At my former employer, I was part of a team who helped implement fully autonomous warehousing using human-less forklifts.

A video of them in operation

It wasn't about the labor savings. The ROI was far out compared to payroll of forklift drivers. It was the perfect loading of trucks to balance the loads on the trucks, the reduction (practically the elimination) of damaged goods, and the accuracy in knowing where the product is and how much was in stock at all times, with no errors.

Also, with this system, the downtime is spent "housekeeping". We could front the product that has an upcoming scheduled pickup time and get it close to the relevant dock door. This reduced loading times, reducing "accessorial charges" that trucks make you pay if you keep them for over a certain amount of time, and allowed the distribution center to ship more product in a crunch than humans could possibly hope to achieve.

Oh and they turn up for work more consistently, take fewer breaks, and operate at a steady calculable rate, so planning knew how many trucks they could get shipped, emphatically!

the fan made series are better than glossy network produced shows. The latest episode of Continues was spot on with a plot that left Kirk between a rock and hard place holding to the prime directive, or saving an entire race of people, well worth the free. (as in beer), viewing.
https://player.vimeo.com/video...
This labor of love is by far the best spin on the ST universe.

...most people would not understand what I am talking about.

It does not matter whether it is Widevine CDM, HTML 5 standards, Trusted Computing or something else.

Most people roll their eyes, when I mention freedom, privacy, and rights in the context of electronics. They often say, "Let them track me. I am not doing anything wrong." or "I need this for work." or "I don't care how it works. Just make it work." They slowly accept their freedom crumbling away.

The general populace is not impressed by:

-Examples where people are stopped or pulled over to have their phones searched.
-By police raids based on incorrect information upon users of IP addresses.
-By illegal seizures of bank accounts.
-By texts used as courtroom evidence on a daily basis.
-By people who are rendered unemployable, stalked, or killed over social media content.

and many more stark examples of their rights being violated.

While I am a true believer in Richard Stallman's wisdom, I find it disheartening to work toward compelling the ignorant masses to do what is in their own best interest. Unfortunately, many seem to be perpetually immune to common sense.

In short... DON'T DATE ROBOTS!

Addendum to pevious post

Manufacturing consent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM

https://vimeo.com/39566117

Considering we already have movie written entirely by an artificial ignorance last year, Sunspring (2016), yeah, it isn't TOO far off.

* https://news.slashdot.org/stor...

Note: It's crap but still a milestone.

Other notables include:

* https://vimeo.com/61686359
* https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
* https://entertainment.slashdot...

"7 minutes, 26 seconds, and the Fundamental Theorem of Agile Software Development" ( https://vimeo.com/79106557 )
JB Rainsberger explains how we usually do our estimates based on essential complexity, although the dev time is often being dominated by accidental complexity (at least, it's quickly watched :-))

“Sandra Wachter, a researcher in data ethics and algorithms at the University of Oxford, said: “The world is biased, the historical data is biased, hence it is not surprising that we receive biased results.””

The single most subversive thing that can be done in the present environment is to financially back lossless compression prizes. One such prize is the Hutter Prize for Lossless Compression of Human Knowledge — although it needs to be expanded to include all of Wikipedia. Perhaps a more immediate prize would be based on compressing a wide variety of social science data. Sandy can then show everyone how smart she is by modeling the “bias in the data” so as to better predict it — which is exactly why compression is _the_ unbiased universal algorithmic IQ test.

See: https://vimeo.com/17553536

"So instead of repealing the law, how about extending to also apply to Google and Facebook?"

Not going to happen, I'll get to why in a moment... check out the links when you get the time. The brain doesn't see the world as it is, see the science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

This is former national security advisor of the united states Zbigniew Brezinski, worried about the political awakening of the masses, the rich and corporations fear the political awakening of the masses of the globe, so see what they really think behind closed doors here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY

On social media -- social media are connected to intelligence agencies... if you think you are going to get privacy it's all bs and optics for the masses.

Reddit and intelligence agencies

Wikileaks -- Reddit and intelligence agencies

These links will take a while to digest, but if you want to understand what's going on in the world, you owe it to yourself to become informed about the true state of the world.

"Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role."

Crisis of democracy

Crisis of democracy - PDF

http://www.amazon.com/Crisis-D... ">Crisis of democracy - BOOK

Education as ignorance

Education as ignorance

Overthrowing other peoples governments

Overthrowing other peoples governments, the master list

Wikileaks on TTIP/TPP/ETC

Wikileaks

Energy subsidies

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/NEW070215A.htm

Interference in other states when the rich/corporations dont get their way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mxp_wgFWQo&feature=youtu.be&list=PLKR2GeygdHomOZeVKx3P0fqH58T3VghOj&t=724

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

http://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/0375714499/

Manufacturing consent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM

https://vimeo.com/39566117

Manufacturing consent (book)

http://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/0375714499/

Testing theories of representative government

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf

Democracy Inc

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed- Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

From war is a racket:

"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil inter

Unexpected encounters with dirty code will make it very difficult to make a sane prediction.

Dirty code is defined as ' overly complex or highly coupled.' As a programer you are expected to deliver X number of features by Y date. Unless one of those features is 'simple and loosely coupled code' what does that have to do with predicting anything? For performance you don't predict. Experiments are the only thing you have that work: test and change and re-test and un-change and re-test, endlessly. Anything else is voodoo programming, not to insult the pracitioners of Santaria, Vodou or Hoodoo.

How about predicting the schedule? I recall that Steve McConnell once joked that to get better at estimating we need to get better at estimating. (This may have been someone else.) Greg Wilson showed we can do this in programming, and Computer Science in general. We only have to do scientific experimentation with various methods. We throw away what doesn't work (instead of writing pulpy business books to bilk people out of money.) But you'll still have to run a lot of tests to do that, too.

It is not uncommon to see "quick" refactorings eventually taking several months to complete. In these instances, the damage to the credibility and political capital of the responsible team will range from severe to terminal. If only we had a tool to help us identify and measure this risk.

It is my opinion that any refactoring that cannot be done by an automatic program isn't refactoring. The original definition of refactoring is just 'factoring' or re-organizing the code. It is not a re-writing as in an 'several months' effort.

Misuse of a sexy, trendy name from the 90s does not change this. All re-writing suffers the risk of second-system syndrome and not in the throw-one-away sense of prototyping. Do you have a button to press in your IDE to make the change? Do you have in mind a short sed statement, simple awk program, EMACS macros or a on-hand shell scriptlet to do the transformation? If not then you cannot get away from re-thinking the problem. This will require re-design of the solution and re-implementation of the feature. Each of these carries time risk at least as high as the original work.

What if the problem is overly complex or highly coupled? The code may merely be an expression of this. In this case only a paradigm or perspective change by the customer, developer or user can untangle the problem. The computer cannot help you do anything but automate making a mess if the problem is a mess. Changing perspective is often an unbound-in-time problem for human beings. Good luck with estimating completion dates for that.

In fact, we have many ways of measuring and controlling the degree and depth of coupling and complexity of our code. Software metrics can be used to count the occurrences of specific features in our code. The values of these counts do correlate with code quality.

In fact, Greg Wilson showed in his presentation that almost every metric on the market when analyzed showed no better and usually equal predictive power as simple counts of Lines of Code.

The situation in programming is almost as if more code equals more bugs while less code equals less bugs.

This seems obvious and

Not having a blatant indication there was a puzzle to be solved was part of the puzzle.

The artist's own video of the project from eight years ago seems to suggest otherwise, given that it says:

San José Semaphore is a multi-sensory kinetic artwork that illuminates the San José skyline with the transmission of a coded message. Cracking the coded message is posed as a challenge for the public.

It doesn't seem like it was a secret that there was a message, so I'm leaning towards agreeing with the OP that this simply wasn't something most people knew about. Plus, it's clear that it was far simpler than many of the puzzles you see solved as a matter of course in alternate reality games that are part of viral marketing campaigns for movies and AAA video game releases, so I'd imagine it'd have been solved in short order if it were more widely known.

Here is a short video of the cipher in action, including decent audio: https://vimeo.com/1763615

Adobe runs the full cipher on their site too, in case anyone wants to take a crack at it from home. To hear the audio you need a Flash plug-in, of course.

Don't forget, Accounting back then was harsh! Just watch this documentary

DJ Shadow + Little Dragon “Scale It Back” https://vimeo.com/31908447

Hey, if you don't fill the mine with our garbage, we'll have to resort to "Plan B": https://vimeo.com/23444452

Of course, sticking with a diet loaded with saturated fat, salt and red meat will likely lead to heart disease, but hey, at least you'll be a skinny corpse.

What are you basing this assertion on?
I really want to know.
There has been no definitive link between saturated fat, salt, and red meat and heart disease. None. If you have information, please point it out.
And don't give me the "everyone knows that", or "that is what the American Heart Association says". Tell me what scientific research you have read. I know what I have read, and none of it says that. All of these conclusions were made, and dietary direction has been given, DESPITE the scientific research on these topics. Here's a good intro for you: Dr Peter Attia on the limits of scientific research.

I can tell you, that link isn't there. And you forgot the other nugget of "conventional wisdom" that isn't supported by science either - that high cholesterol is a direct cause of heart disease. Because half - yes HALF - of people who have heart attacks have what is considered to be normal cholesterol. Yes, there is old standby that there is "good cholesterol and bad cholesterol" but it's much more complex than just that. And over 90% of the cholesterol in your blood does not come from what you eat - your body produces it. Now, what you eat can impact your blood cholesterol composition, but it does not come from eating saturated fat.

You talk about what we've learned in the last 100 years. Do you have any concept of how long humans have been around? 100 years is a blink of the eye. How do you think we got here? How did we not only survive, but thrive? By whatever you consider to be "healthy eating"? Let me guess.... low fat, high carb diet, lots of fiber, and filler like beans, fruits and vegetables. The reason obesity is so rampant, and people are looking to fads, is because of the misinformation we have all been given, and have been propagating, for years.

Science tells us the real story.
Good Calories Bad Calories
The Primal Blueprint
Grain Brain
http://eatingacademy.com/

And yes, I have bet my life in all of this. 4+ years of eating a high-saturated fat, low carb diet, minimal sugar, minimal inflammation foods. By choice. I am in my upper 40s and I have never felt better. It sounds daunting, but once you learn how your body works and why to eat certain things and not others it is not. It doesn't take will power either. Once you break that physical addiction to those things that put your body through the chemical roller-coaster, it is easy. And simple. And you'll wonder why nobody told you these things sooner.

Here is what beer REALLY did for us:
https://vimeo.com/23278902

Where I have my cottage, we have a former iron mine on top of a hill above the river, about 3/4 full of water. Add a nice modern turbine/pump asembly and you have a storage mechanism for solar and wind power. It's an old trick, but the old moter-gerarators they use in Brazil weren't as efficient as modern stuff. https://vimeo.com/63846372

I met Richard Hatch at DragonCon 2016. I'd seen him before at other events, but I actually had time to sit and talk with him among friends this past year, along with Gigi Edgley who had been working with him on a small film project, Diminuendo (catch the trailer on vimeo at https://vimeo.com/181168232 ). It was really refreshing to speak to an actor that was very kind and personable and genuinely interested in opening a dialogue with sci-fi fans about the sort of projects we were all mutually interested in.

Without Hatch, the Battlestar Galactica remake would never have made it to the concept phase, much less to TV. He fought for its revival for decades, and it was his persistence that eventually made the moneymen cave and give the franchise another shot. Beyond that, he's actively campaigned for many sci-fi productions and fought for the genre from film festivals to big blockbuster movies. Time and again, the people who hold the purse at the studios don't understand the value of fantasy or sci-fi -- and it takes many years for everything for a project to come together. The right script has to have the right producer, director, funding, actors, writers, musical talent, special effects artists... hundreds of key people all coming together at the right time to make a project happen. Things are shelved for years for simple timing issues. Hatch is one of the few that made sure that certain properties like BSG were kept in the minds of decision-makers so that when things were right, the projects could go forward with speed.

When he spoke with me, he talked about some of his most recent work that was circulating at film festivals and how he really appreciated the fan base that shows up to events as they support him and give evidence that these projects can really have legs. We're talking about a guy in his 70s who could easily just up and retire, but was so passionate about his craft and world-building, he toured with various artists to drum up excitement for their work. He still held workshops for budding actors, and he authored many BSG books. He could have taken offers for lots of movies, but he preferred to work on projects he was passionate about.

I'd had the privilege of sitting not 10 ft from nearly the entire BSG cast at a prior DragonCon -- Hatch included. While all of the actors were very interesting and shared a lot of great info while being funny and entertaining, he and Edward James Olmos especially carried the room when they spoke and were very humble about being able to deliver rich performances about meaningful topics that resonate in today's socio-political landscapes.

Whatever else you may think of Richard Hatch, know that he was a sci-fi fan at heart and he loved being a part of worlds and stories that he as an actor and writer and you all as fans helped build together.

Costs are roughly proportional to area but if more transistors can be placed into the same area, then the cost per transistor is less and that is what primarily drives investment into new process generations even at the expense of performance.

Intel's William Holt gave a recent lecture on the subject - Moore’s Law: A Path Forward.

Intel's William Holt gave a recent lecture on the subject - Moore’s Law: A Path Forward.

Cue lack of whining about radiation.

Why YouTube views have gone down is unclear, but some good theories are floating around. SocialBlade Community Manager Danny Fratella pointed to two potential causes: view audits and altered video-promoting algorithms.

How about endless, intrusive ads without the slightest relevance? How about annoying auto-spam video play by default? How about other video sites that offer a way more pleasant experience? How about google powerpointers should take their faces out of each other's buttholes for a moment and listen to what users are saying?

You mean you're not excited for this future?

Here's a link to the NASA paper on the apparently successful test: https://drive.google.com/file/...

And here is a presentation by the technology's inventor, Roger Shawyer https://vimeo.com/channels/Emd...

Warning: Shawyer may well be brilliant, but he is the Anti-Musk in terms of his presenting and motivational skills. This guy could seriously announce a working warp drive in a way that would make people walk out of the presentation half way through. If he has funding problems, he needs to get someone else to present his technology and business case for him.

I worked as DevOps, I DevOps ... no idea what you are doing with DevOps ... that you claim such nonsense.

You worked as a sysadmin in an organization that did not understand DevOps and gave you a glorified job title. It's a shame, because DevOps was so promising, and it has been watered down so quickly.

See What is DevOps? written in 2010. I would also encourage you to check out some of the early Devopsdays videos.

Of course, as soon as the enterprise market got wind of it, they said "CI and CD sound really useful. We should have people who do that." Some hired consultants to teach them how to be devopsy and revamp their development and operations processes. Others hired people who knew puppet, chef, or cfengine, stuck them on a "devops team", and had them do some of the things associated with DevOps. But what they are doing is not "DevOps".

He's mentioned in the credits: Alexei Berteig. He does lots of commercial, documentary, and now entertainment video work. He recently moved to Vancouver from Beijing. You can check his stuff out at Fashioner Films.

To be fair, Emacs LISP *is* an actual full-blown LISP system, not a (simple) scripting or macro language.

In all fairness, it needs more cowbell.

https://vimeo.com/ Is the "backup, just in case" that a lot of YT content creators are pointing out. I've heard a couple of "No, this isn't the end of YouTube, but just in case here's my vimeo channel."

Dr. Peter Attia: The limits of scientific evidence and the ethics of dietary guidelines — 60 years of ambiguity
https://vimeo.com/45485034

We'll be killed by flying saucers firing lasers if we don't ban sexbots: https://vimeo.com/12915013

Wild peacocks roam the streets of Palos Verdes and San Pedro. That doesn't make it a wilderness. The abandoned military housing is probably somewhat closer to a wilderness, in the sense that any animals living there do so more or less free from human interference. The bad news is that we're losing this as hungry and/or greedy humans (it makes no difference as far as the wildlife is concerned) decide they need the space. The good news is that if we leave it alone, nature eventually claws it back. It's just unlikely to happen with the number of people on the planet still increasing.

There are really no other free video hosting sites.

If the uploader is one of the video's authors, and the video clearly isn't promoting something for sale, Vimeo is an option, though where allowed "showcas[ing] your creative work" ends and prohibited "commercial content" begins can be tricky to find. And is Dailymotion still around?

Finally, if you're willing to step up from free to cheap (assuming low traffic), you could just make an Amazon S3 bucket and toss a WebM file up there. The current price for U.S. buckets is $0.09 per GB of data transfer and $0.03 per month of storage. So if you encode a 12 minute video at 1 Mbps (typical SD bitrate), it'll be 90 MB. Keeping it in S3 for a year costs $0.03/(GB mo) * 0.09 GB * 12 mo = 3 cents, and a thousand views cost $0.09/GB * 0.09 GB/view * 1000 views = $8.10. It might pose a problem if it goes viral though.

Don't Date Robots!

But what does Microsoft have that's remotely similar to, say, YouTube?

Vimeo

Vimeo isn't by Microsoft, as I had previously stipulated. And even if we agree to abandon this stipulation, Vimeo has drawbacks. From the Vimeo Guidelines:

1. "Upload only videos you created yourself." This means at least one of the authors of a video has to be a Vimeo user with a suitable Internet connection. Videos created by a minor child may not qualify, as the parent who uploads it might not be an author. Nor may videos created by someone who lives in an area where home Internet connections are harshly capped, as the author can't sneakernet the video to a non-author to upload to Vimeo unless the non-author pays $199 per year for Vimeo PRO.
2. "If you are a business or wish to upload commercial content, you must use Vimeo PRO. [...] Exception! If you’re an independent production company, artist, or non-profit, you may use any account type (Basic, Plus, or PRO) to showcase your creative work." But so far, I haven't found an easy way to tell what makes a production company "independent", nor where "showcas[ing] your creative work" ends and "promoting or representing a for-profit business or brand" begins.
3. From July 2008 through October 2014, there was a blanket rule against gameplay videos. During this period, Vimeo was handing the audience for video game reviews over to YouTube. And even after this period, the "commercial content" rule still raises doubt.

https://vimeo.com/12915013

I'm just going to leave this here: https://vimeo.com/159496346

Automation dependency can kill, whether it's a car or an aircraft.

It should include things like this: Interactive Art using FlipBits. Full Disclosure: Yes, it may be a shameless plug. But you asked for my opinion.